'A Quiet Place 2' filming to shut down Grand Island bridge Sunday

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (WHEC) — Filming for "A Quiet Place 2" will close one of the Grand Island bridges to traffic on Sunday.

The film has been shooting in Western New York for a few months now. Actor, writer, and director John Krasinski visited the Candy Apple Cafe in Akron in May. He is directing the film.

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The northbound South Grand Island Bridge will be closed Sunday, Aug.25, from midnight until 1 p.m. to accommodate the cast and crew. All traffic traveling northbound on the Niagara section of the Thruway entering onto the island will be diverted to a single lane of the southbound South bridge during that time.

The Thruway Authority tells WGRZ in Buffalo that drivers should expect severe delays in the area, especially after 9 a.m. Sunday, and are advised to find alternate routes.

New York State Police will be periodically slowing and stopping traffic as well.

The original sci-fi horror movie, focused on a family trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic America, was filmed in Utica.